Bath treatment (fishkeeping)
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Bath treatments are easy to carry out disease treatments that originated since the earliest days of
vitamins in the bath. Bath treatment can either be short-term (a "dip") or long-term (from a few hours to 12 or 24 hours or longer).[1]
A number of medications and water treatments are used in this way. Salt is the most effective bath treatment, and is used to eliminate
and ionic copper are used to treat similar ailments.Various antibiotics, such as
protozoans and flukes
.
Synthetic antiparasitics such as Lufenuron, Praziquantel, and Chloramine-T are sometimes used in bath treatments, as are insecticides like Diflubenzuron. Organic dyes such as malachite green, methylene blue and acriflavine are also used to treat parasites and fungal infections.
References
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